“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” - George W. Bush

Sunday, December 26, 2010

PatriotPilot.com

~ TSA Whistleblowing Patriot Pilot ~

To the thousands of patriotic Americans who have contacted us or shown support for the Patriot Pilot who exposed the major TSA security flaw at the San Francisco (SFO) airport and at other airports throughout the United States and perhaps the World, via YouTube, we say thank you. The Patriot Pilot is an average man, like many of us, who simply wanted to make sure that the American public was truly safe when flying the "frendly skies".

nfortunately, some in the Government, such as TSA, have worked overtime to try and convince us that we are safe, when we, in fact, know that we are not. How can TSA claim that air travel is safe when they can't even keep thousands of pounds of marijuana and hundreds of pounds of cocaine off our commercial aircraft? They can't using their current, myopic system, and punishing the Patriot Pilot is not going to make the skys any safer, either. To illustrate my point, there have been a number of instances where ground crews have been implicated in illegal activities involving commercial aircraft. For example, on August 6, 2010, "Ground crews at Puerto Rico’s Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport were accused ... of smuggling drug-laden suitcases aboard four major commercial airlines bound for the U.S. mainland. ... The three men arrested allegedly stowed cocaine-stuffed suitcases in the airlines’ cargo compartments and sometimes used tags stolen from properly checked luggage[.] ... Last year, nine employees of [a major commercial carrier] were accused of participating in a smuggling ring that allegedly sent at least 9,000 kilograms (19,800 pounds) of cocaine aboard flights from Puerto Rico to the U.S. over a decade."Caribbeanbusinesspr.com. In reality, a bomb is much smaller and substantially more dangerous than the thousands of pounds of drugs already believed to have been smuggled about commercial aircraft by ground crews. Clearly, drug lords know that airports are not the air tight security environments that TSA would like the rest of us to believe.

unishing the Patriot Pilot only serves to remind each of us that we are not free to seek redress from our Government as provided for in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. If we were, then the TSA would be asking for the help of EVERYAmerican and especially the tens of thousands of professional pilots who are flying into literally every airport in the World on a daily basis. What do they see that could make our safety system even better?

ow much better could we make the system if TSA worked with us and not againstus?

he Patriot Pilot would like to sincerely thank Sacramento News 10 Reporter George Warren for bringing this critical story to the American public so that we can finally force TSA to start an intelligent dialog about a real and complete security system.

or our country to truly have a safe aviation system, we need to create a security zone around the airport and check everyone and everything that comes into that security zone,without exception. The current system, as exposed by the Patriot Pilot, allows ground crews far to much unsupervised access to the aircraft and only invites another terrorist attack or mass air disaster. Let's plug the hole, NOW.

lease join us in contacting your congressional represenatives to ask that Congress hold hearings into TSA's compete lack of oversight in the aviation safety system, especially since we, the taxpayers and the flying public have already spent billions of dollars to make the skys safer, only to find out that the security system is, as the Patriot Pilot stated, "is just smoke and mirrors." Congress should ask the Patriot Pilot to testify about his treatment and what he thinks would make the system safer.

The photography show is called "The Last Kodachrome" but the last Kodachrome images aren't in the show. They are still in Pat Willard's Nikon camera.

They will have to come out by next week because the last lab in the world that processes the famed color film, Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kan., is discontinuing it at the end of the year. The last rolls to be processed must be there by noon, Dec. 30. After 75 years, all that will be left of Kodachrome is the Paul Simon song, and a state park named after it in Utah.

There will still be a sister film called Ektachrome, but Willard, a fine art photographer in Redwood City, is not buying it.

"I'll probably do only black and white," he says, lowering his tone to a funereal whisper. "There's no color like Kodachrome."

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The last roll Kodak manufactured was given to Steve McCurry, who shot the famous Kodachrome image of the green-eyed Afghan girl that was on the cover of National Geographic in June 1985. Last spring, he used up the roll in New York City and India, and the prints will eventually be on display in 2011 at the Eastman House museum.

Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality, And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off waking toils, They do divide our being; they become A portion of ourselves as of our time, And look like heralds of eternity; They pass like spirits of the past -they speak Like sibyls of the future; they have power - The tyranny of pleasure and of pain; They make us what we were not -what they will, And shake us with the vision that's gone by, The dread of vanished shadows -Are they so? Is not the past all shadow? -What are they? Creations of the mind? -The mind can make Substances, and people planets of its own With beings brighter than have been, and give A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh. I would recall a vision which I dreamed Perchance in sleep -for in itself a thought, A slumbering thought, is capable of years, And curdles a long life into one hour.

People that had been approved for transplants, were then denied them. Republican cost cutting was the reason for it.

A law in Arizona that cuts Medicaid funding for certain transplant operations is likely to bring about the deaths of poor residents in need of such procedures.

Starting in October, a measure passed by the Republican-led state legislature began denying Medicaid funds for organ transplants such as bone-marrow, lung, heart and liver transplants, which can be very expensive and are often performed in life-threatening cases.

The New York Times reports that Arizona doctors deem it a "a death sentence for some low-income patients, who have little chance of survival without transplants and lack the hundreds of thousands of dollars needed to pay for them."

The thing about Hardy is - all this modern moaning and groaning about 'realism' is an abberation from the older and more universal way of understanding things. Myth is comedy, the happy ending, not tragedy; this modern misunderstanding of things is typified by a guy like Hardy, who doesn't look in very far nor deep.

I am full of insecurities. I've had to start paying new attention to those, too.

What, then, is the point?

Yes, that's a good, good question.

So is this one: Wasn't this much more entertaining when I had no idea that my life is an orchestration? An invention? Is there some purpose to letting me in on the machinations? Is it simply to observe the process of a Sim becoming aware that she inhabits Simworld?

Last night I could hear scraping of snow shovels on the pavement and sounds of snow blowers outside as I laid on the couch watching TV. Usually with a significant amount of snow the shoveling gets done several times throughout the day.

I was hoping with the extreme wind that waiting until morning would be the smart thing to do. I was right. There is not much shoveling to do.

The Prime Minister announced that the Foreign Minister does not "really" represent the Government of Israel.

"The foreign minister's words reflect his understandings and personal opinions, as the various ministers in the government differ in opinion from one another," the PMO statement explained. "The government's position is only the one expressed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu."

If the Government of Israel represents Judaism, the question becomes ...

Who represents the Government of Israel to the whirled?

If not their Foreign Minister.

Is "Bibi" Netanyahu both the face and voice of Judaism in the whirled?

There is a philosophical trap that implies anything that ends was pointless from the onset.

We live, we die, what was the point?

Follow that to a logical conclusion and you conclude that if the ending had no meaning, then the beginning had no meaning, so everything in between was also meaningless, including this post and any discussion of it.

Find your joy where you can and if you can't, then learn to do it. That will be all the meaning you ever need.

A federal appeals court rejected a request by the oil and gas industry and others to delay the US Environmental Protection Agency's plans to begin regulating greenhouse gas emissions on Jan. 2. The request did not meet "stringent standards required ...

Given your sensitivity to alleged ethnic cleansing, I knew you would want to know about the real thing:

“If there is an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, we won’t agree to the presence of one Israeli in it,” Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas told reporters in Ramallah on Saturday.

By the way, Ash, that is how the Muzzies ran Jerusalem before we drove out the Jordanian army (sic)in '67. That's right, Ash, Jews were not allowed into Jerusalem. Our holiest site was blocked, our synagogues destroyed and our cemetaries (and dead) desecrated.

Ash, it looks like the Palies want a return to the status quo ante (pre-1967). That's not going to happen.

Since Mr. Abbas has laid out the ground rules (ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem), I would love to see Israel cleanse Jerusalem of all Palestinians, leaving not a single one...Fair enough?

Why wouldn't I have a wife.? I most certainly do, for the last thrity years. Sme one too, no substitute.

So Melody, when is little mini mini me getting her first tattoo?

Quirk and I, who correspond privately, are planning on putting those half moon discs---it's late in life for this, but we are determined--behind our lower lips like some Africans do and making them go out so we can put a Ronald McDonald pancake there.

We're also thinking of carving a false feminine part on the underside of our penises so as to signify wholeness like some abos do, eh, Quirk. Quirk is high on this idea for some reason. I am a little hesitant.

My daughter, who's current goal in life seems to be to avoid getting a real working job, (Aristotle would approve of this) has gotten herself accepted into a fancy horse program at Ohio University, after she gets out of here.

I smell the influence of Miss Marion in this.

But it's ok, as she does truly love horses, most girls get over the infatuaion, and you only live one life at a time, and besides the satellite campus where this fancy program takes place is only some few miles from my wife's place on the Ohio River.

Truly interesting comments. There is a huge difference between being lonely and being alone. The latter being a choice.

Human animals are predators. Unlike prey animals, we have somewhat flat faces that only allow is to see about 160 degrees. We cannot look behind us easily. Our ears are cupped forward to hear what is in front of us. We were not designed to look behind us, nor should we be concerned with what is behind us. Look only forward.

So it is with our minds. Spending more than a nano second worrying over something in the past is a complete waste. Don't do it.

The level of pain and sorrow anyone experiences is only relative to what you have already experienced. Each experience makes you a little tougher than before.

What I think is there's a klind of echo effect from some things from long ago. For instance, FFB is long over being pissed about a major lawsuit of years ago, but, alas, I'm still dealing with some off the aftereffects. I'm over it, but still have to deal with it.

A little moaning and groaning doesn't hurt anything.

"What doesn't kill me makes me stronger." Nietzche

"Even what kills me makes me stronger."Farmer Fucking Bob

And, Trish, if you are dreaming about staircases, what other symbolism can you think of other than up and down?

To dream that you are walking up a flight of stairs, indicate that you are achieving a higher level of understanding. You are making progress into your spiritual, emotional or material journey. The dream is also analogous to material and thoughts that are coming to the surface.

To dream that you are walking down a flight of stairs, represents your repressed thoughts. You are regressing back into your unconscious. It also refers to the setbacks that you are experiencing in your life. If you are afraid of going down the stairs, then it means that you are afraid to confront your repressed emotions and thoughts. Is there something from your past that you are not acknowledging?

To dream that you slip or trip on the stairs, signify your lack of self confidence or conviction in the pursuit of some endeavor. If you slip going up the stairs, then it means that you are moving too fast toward attaining your goals. If you slip going down the stairs, then it suggests that you are moving too quickly in delving into your unconscious. You may not be quite ready to confront your unconscious or repressed thoughts.

To dream that you are wearing high heels, represent femininity and glamour. You feel confident and self-assured. Alternatively, high heels indicate that you are feeling restricted and limited in your role as a female. You do not think that you can fully and freely express yourself.

Capricorns are considered the loner of the zodiac, but have a great need to be loved and appreciated. Unfortunately, you won't let this be known. You hide behind many masks and when one is revealed there is still yet another. It may take a long time to discover the real you. You may seem indifferent and aloof only because you are so self-contained. But the very elusiveness of your personality can be very hypnotically attractive. Like a riddle wrapped inside a sphinx. There seems to be a fascinating secret buried in your depths and anyone willing to penetrate your shell of reserve will be greatly rewarded. That's if you can get in.

This is quite good.

heh, Capricorns may be a kind of Tibetan hungry ghost, trying to suck adulation out of others.

"[. . .] The eye ofman hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen,man’s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive,nor his heart to report, what my dream was. Iwill get Peter Quince to write a ballad of thisdream: it shall be called ‘Bottom’s Dream’, becauseit hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the latter endof a play, before the Duke. Peradventure, to make it themore gracious, I shall sing it at her death."

You should've seen the looks on the faces of my Dad and Mom,When I showed up at the door with a date for the senior prom.They said: "Well, pardon us, son, she ain't no kid.That's a cocktail waitress in a Dolly Parton wig."I said: "I know it, dad. Ain't she cool, That's the kind I dig."

Magnificent Ronald and the Founding Fathers of al Qaeda

“These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s founding fathers.” — Ronald Reagan while introducing the Mujahideen leaders to media on the White house lawns (1985). During Reagan’s 8 years in power, the CIA secretly sent billions of dollars of military aid to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan in a US-supported jihad against the Soviet Union. We repeated the insanity with ISIS against Syria.